Chapter Six: Angel Speaks the Truth
I look at my Flock from where I'm sitting. They are all surrounding me and looking at our enemies. That's when I remembered I can't walk or fly, let alone fight. This was going to be a problem. Out of nowhere Fang was next to me and thinking.
Max? We can't get out of here without fighting, but you can't fight.
That's going to be our main problem. Got any ideas?
One, but… you might not like it that much.
If it gets us out of here, I'll listen to the idea, but I might not use it.
Gazzy and Iggy.
Tell them to get throwing.
Gazzy and Iggy turn to face me, both looking surprised. I nod to Gazzy and he taps Iggy's hand. They both reach into their backpacks and pull out…
Their bombs that seem to come out of nowhere. They start to throw their bombs at the Erasers. Fang picks me up, and everyone does an up and away, with Gazzy and Iggy still throwing.
All of the erasers are blown up by the bombs, but Max II and the other flock are still alive. They start to chase us. The two Maxes stay behind a little and the rest start to follow. The rest of my Flock, except Fang and I, go to meet them in the air.
Gazzy is fighting Ozy and Frannie, Angel is fighting Matthew, Nudge fighting Icarus, and Iggy fighting Peter and Wendy. We had the slight advantage because we have been fighting more lately and we knew the trick of smashing the wings together from behind.
Ozy and Frannie kick Gazzy in the stomach, but he doesn't show any pain. Instead he continues to try and get behind them. He finally gets behind Frannie and smashes her wings together. She falls and just before she hits the trees she opens her wings, so that when she hits the trees, her wings hit the branches. Then, while Ozy is distracted by that, Gazzy does the same to Ozy. Both of the twins are on the ground, in pain, and can't move.
Angel is forcing Matthew to help Iggy in taking out the other twins. Iggy gets behind Peter just as Matthew gets behind Wendy, and they both smash the wings together. Then Angel forces Matthew to stay in place while Iggy smashes his wings together.
Nudge is having trouble. For a blind kid, Icarus is just as good as Iggy. When Angel realizes this, she and Iggy go over and help. They come up behind him without him knowing because he's too concentrated on what's in front of him to hear them coming from behind and each grab a wing. Then they push them together until he starts to fall, then they let go.
The two Maxes are staring at this, with the other Max, not Max II, slightly openmouthed. My Flock surrounds them. Iggy and Angel grab the wings of Max II and smash them together, and Gazzy and Nudge grab the other Max's wings and smash them together. They both fall at the same time down to the ground.
Right after my Flock lets go of them, we all fly away as fast as we can towards the southeast. After flying for six hours nonstop, we are in Texas. We find a cave that can barely be seen from in the air even, and sit in there to rest. The rest of the Flock is looking at me. "Angel, please tell them what we've learned."
Angel starts to talk, "First of all, Max has had me reading the minds of that other flock since we found them. I've gotten a lot of information by doing this. The two nine-year-olds are the only ones with powers. Ozy can read minds, and Frannie can do what Fang does – turn invisible. Max got the truth out of them while we were getting food, but I had told her before hand that those thoughts were buried deep in their minds, but still there so that I could get them. We let them come with us so that we could trick them into thinking we had no idea what was going on. It worked.
"Also, the School did go to their house and the Erasers were about to kill Matthew, so the other Max had to make a deal with Max II just so that nobody was hurt, or killed. The deal was to act normal, and if we happened to stop by, send Max II a message by pressing a button on a bracelet she gave to the other Max, but we couldn't see because of some sort of technology in it. When we got there, that was the first thing anyone did, and then they were to get us into the house, which they did.
"The thing is that the other Max doesn't like us anyway because we have powers, and they know it. Max II told them about our powers, but they didn't know how to react to them. Ozymandias can't control minds yet, just read them and talk to people in their minds. Frannie can't move at all without becoming visible, but Fang can move slowly. Our powers are stronger and more matured, which helps us.
"They thought that they had us fooled when Ozy and Frannie came with us, but really, we just wanted them for information. They thought they could block out their minds, but they kept leaving doors open for me. Either way, that other Max doesn't like us, and neither does her brother or Icarus. Both sets of twins don't mind us, but they don't want to be hurt, killed, or have Max on their tails.
"Overall, they are against us, and we should be worried." The Flock is staring between Angel and me. They believe what they just heard, but don't want to. I can tell that they are tired so I put out my fist for our nightly stack. Fang puts his fist on mine, Iggy on his, Nudge on his, Gazzy on hers, and Angel on his. We tap each others fists and go to bed. Fang is taking first and second watch and Iggy third because of my leg. I lie down and go to sleep, while everyone else seems to be thinking.
For those of you who saw Chapter Five as a repeat of Chapter Four, I'm really sorry about that. I had half an hour at the library and no Internet waiting at home, so I was kind of rushed. I just got my Internet back today, but I was at a friend's house and fixed the chapter yesterday. So, if you haven't seen the real Chapter Five, please go back and read it. Again, I'm really really sorry about that.
This is a fight (Though a short one because of Max's wounds), and an explanation. I know I confused my mom at some points in the earlier chapters, but I did it on purpose, so that it could be explained later on.
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Edited: 10/10/09